Magazine and Poster - Time Schedule

Date	Action
5th December’12	Do some research into current movie posters Do some research into current movie magazine front covers
6th December’12	Analysis of the poster, looking at the conventions of what appears, both similarities and differences
15th December’12	Analysis of the magazine front covers, looking at the mise en scene, similarities and differences
19th December’12	Design a mock up of the poster layout
23rd December’12	Design a mock up of the magazine layout
29th December’12	Think about the images going to be used on both the magazine front cover and also the poster
30th December’12	Make the poster and get audience feedback
10th January’13	Make changes from audience feedback
16th January’13	Make the magazine front cover and get audience feedback
1st February’13	Make changes from audience feedback
18th February’13	Make sure the layout is suitable and looks professional

Costume Idea

After gaining some research from the costume ideas, we decided to go with the suit and the clown mask, rather than the cloak.

Production Schedule - Resources

These are what we need to create each product, including software and props:

Trailer:

• A video camera
• Tripod
• Final Cut
• Motion
• Clown mask
• Clown suit
• Gloves
• Weapon (knives)
• Confetti
• Teddy
• Bow tie
• Balloons
• Laptop or iPad
• Photograph
• Newspaper
• Torch
• Suitcase

Poster and magazine:

• Adobe photoshop
• Digial camera
• Mask
• Costume

Production Schedule

Job allocation for the trailer:

Names	Job Allocation
Everyone	Filming
Everyone	Organising costumes
Everyone	Organising props
Pavita	Organising actors: clown and two girls
Everyone	Planning of scenes to film
Linh and Lisa	Editing on Final Cut
Mureum	Research into soundtracks
Linh	Research into film companies
Linh and Lisa	Research into layout of the trailer
Lisa, Linh	Directing while filming of actors
Linh, Pavita and Mureum	Inter titles and voiceover lines
Lisa	Creating the inter titles
Lisa	Photoshop work (editing and creating images)
Linh and Lisa	Adding effects using Motion
Lisa and Linh	Research into target audience

Harlequin Trailer Script

- shot of girl screaming
- cut to black
- girl hiding with weapon breathing heavily
- cut to black
- girl getting dragged
- cut to black
- knife to coming to camera, insert mini blackouts between
- cut to black
- film company (eary music playing throughout titles)
- "Hidden secrets from the past"
- slow zoom in of front of the house
- fade to black and hear door creakily shut
- silence
- "what the hell is that?" (Still in blackout)
- shot of photo
- cut to black
- shot of close up of window in the photo

- cuts to over shoulder shot of clown laying out his props and knives
- fade to black

- girl going upstairs, finds teddy with back to her picks it up and turns to realise mask is on teddy
- cut to close up of bow with symbol on
- hears bang, turns head

- cut to black
- shot of friends room
- shot of daughters room
- figure of clown in hallway
- shot of friends room with clown over her 

- cut to black
- girl goes to bathroom and sees symbols on arms
- looks ahead sees teddy
- cut to black
- holds teddy to arm and compares symbol
- cut to black
- girl on laptop, zoom into google search and results 
- as she realises what it means - shot of clown face appears in window
- cut to black
- shot of friend finding the clown's room with clown toys and knives
- clown in background watching her
- she looks up and sees him
- cut to black
- shot of daughter in bedroom working quietly with earphones in, music blasting
- clown in background walking back and forth outside bedroom door
- cut to black
- daughter finds teddy on bed with the picture
- whispers "I C U"
- head up, zoom in of eyes looking to side
- loud bang, hand grabs her mouth

- mini blackouts between this action
- cuts to closet
- shot of friend looking through the gap (from outside with ray of light on face)
- shot of friend looking through the gap (from inside)
- goes silent
- cuts to black
- shot of girl laying there
- shot of friend reaching out to help friend
- friend gets dragged past closet
- cut to black
- shot of closet
- friend opens closet door slowly (creak sound)
- clown face appears right in front of camera

Audience Feedback

After presenting our planning to the group, they gave us some opinions and ways to improve our story to make it more interesting:

• Harlequin - Good original name, easy to remember
• Unsolved mystery - someone has died before hand
• Should use newspaper to show this
• Clown should use a real kitchen knife as his weapon
• Sounds in trailer should include: heavy breathing, bangs and creaking
• Voiceover should be a deep mail sophisticated voice

We have decided to use all these ideas including creating a newspaper to show the story behind the house.

Question...

Should we use this symbol in our trailer for the clown's motif to show he is present?